Among the primary social pressures on schools to change are the demands for individualization, relevance, accountability, educational technology, and humanizing relationships. These five pressures challenge the educational administrator and offer categories in which to plan professional development activities. The adaptive school is an avenue for…

The dissemination and use of software from the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) has had a definite impact on the development of management information systems in postsecondary education. In addition to the NCHEMS information system products, a computer software package called HEPS (Higher Education Planning System)…

This paper is concerned with policy-making and policy processes in education and with the role of the administrator in these processes. More specifically it aims to explore ten conceptual tools or models that appear to have utility in developing our understanding of these areas. This examination includes policy-making and policy processes in…

The author presents a model for the evaluation of administrative performance that includes three interrelated systems (the macroorganizational, the microorganizational, and the administrative evaluation systems). He describes the competency/performance approach to administrator evaluation and enumerates variables conditioning administrative…

The document contains the proceedings of a Statewide conference on enhancing the role of vocational education administrators as change agents. Conference topics included: "How Administrators Can Overcome Barriers to Educational Change," Henry M. Brickell; "Why Educational Innovations Fail and How They can be More Effectively…

The purpose of the handbook is to provide basic guidelines and information for administrators and supervisors of comprehensive vocational education programs in the State of Tennessee. Emphasis is placed on duties, responsibilities, and functions performed by administrative and supervisory personnel. The handbook also includes: (1) suggested goals…

This paper defines and discuss a number of basic concepts relevant to educational administration that form the basis for the Educational Management Project, a comprehensive inservice program for educational administrators that was developed by the Tucson Public Schools. Major topics discussed include educational management, the difference between…

While much research has been done on the administrative style of school principals, it has concentrated mainly on how the principal does what he does. This study investigated the content dimensions of the principal's role in response to the need for research on the impact of evolving environments on the changing role of school principals and the…

Elementary school principals in two cooperative educational service agencies in Wisconsin were asked to respond to 39 items concerning supervisory involvement of principals in the reading program. Four supervisory strategies were analyzed: directing and controlling, stimulating and initiating, analyzing and appraising, and designing and…

Management is concerned with the conception and choice of goals. A manager must first determine his own goals within the framework of overriding organizational objectives and limitations. Second, a manager must determine what methods he will use to achieve his goals--on the basis of cost-benefit comparisons. Third, the manager must design his…

The role of the evaluation supervisor as internal auditor and his or her responsibility for assuring the independence and objectivity of evaluation results are discussed. Four sources of compromise of objectivity are discussed: factual, political, involvement, and affective. The first two sources of compromise cannot be accepted, A code of ethical…

Changes that have taken place in academic governance, particulary as they affect the role of the college president, are discussed. These changes are traced from the time when the administration operated the institution and the president acted as a buffer between and among groups that make up the college to the present day of participatory…

This paper is one of six presented at a symposium on the integration of policy, power, perception, and status into a working model. The objectives of the symposium were to define the concept of policy and its interrelationship to power; provide a framework in which policy is affected by perceptions and demonstrate how status roles and perceptions…

This report considers the tenure system and its relation to academic freedom and focuses on Florida and the University of Florida. Role conflicts between faculty and administrators are presented including a discussion of viewpoints over budget allocations. An overview is given of the position or role attributes, status, and functions of the…

The rationale and means for extending and improving developmental reading programs at the secondary level are discussed. Objectives of these programs are viewed as extensions of developmental reading objectives at the elementary level. To develop awareness of the need for such reading instruction at the secondary level, reading institutes for high…